On Mar 31, 2006, at 5:11 AM, John Bell wrote:
One of my 12-year-old students wants me to do a play-along project of songs that he and his contemporaries listen to. I told him that if he could find ten current songs that I like, I'd do it (I refuse to work on music that I don't like personally). It remains to be seen whether or not he can come up with the songs--I doubt that he can. For instance, I asked him if he'd heard of Nora Jones (The daughter of Ravi Shankar, who taught George Harrison the sitar, which he played on "Norwegian Wood," one of the songs in my book). Well, my student never heard of her. It turns out that 12-year-olds (at least this 12-year-old) don't listen to Nora Jones. Not that I particularly like her music, but at least I don't find it offensive. Again, personal taste. My former composition instructor at USC likes the Black Crows, which I can't stand. But I'm 20 years older than her, so I guess that explains it. All of this said, I do believe that in general the popular music of the 60s was far superior musically than today's music, but is that a true statement, or just my own personal taste? I dunno. ******************************************** Lon Price, Los Angeles |
_______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale